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Afghan Girls: Meet Fatima

May 8, 2014 Eighteen year old Fatima’s goal is to empower women and promote equality in Afghanistan. With the help of the Afghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund, Fatima is one step closer to that goal – having graduated George School and heading to Lafayette College in the fall.…

Afghan Girls: Meet Malahat

May 6, 2014 The Afghan Girls Financial Assistance Fund (AGFAF) at the Community Foundation does truly amazing work. Now we’d like to highlight the achievements of several of the girls supported by the Fund. The first story in this installment is about Malahat, a young woman who first came to the United States in 2009.…

NJ Spotlight Wins Journalism Awards

May 1, 2014 Congratulations are in order to our friends at NJ Spotlight, who have won several awards for reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association.  The Community Foundation of New Jersey is a founding supporter of NJ Spotlight, which features high-quality, in-depth journalism that encourages civic and community participation and provides an understanding of the vital issues affecting our state today in education, healthcare, the environment, and public finance.…

NJ Spotlight wins 4 awards from Garden State Journalists Association

May 1, 2014 NJ Spotlight, New Jersey’s premier online news and public policy source, has won four awards from the Garden State Journalists Association, including the organization’s top honor. NJ Spotlight writer Mark Magyar won two awards for his coverage of public finance and property tax issues, while Scott Gurian — who covers the Sandy recovery effort as part of a collaboration with WNYC/New Jersey Public Radio — was lauded for his coverage of the Sandy recovery effort.…

NJ Recovery Fund Update: Grantee Convening & Assessment

April 22, 2014 The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation engaged the Center for Whole Communities (CWC) to lead grantees through the development of a goals and an assessment rubric for their work, which defines objectives and assesses the grantees’ contribution toward achieving those goals.…

NJ Recovery Fund Update: Community Health & the Arts

April 22, 2014 Community Health The New Jersey Recovery Fund supported grants to organizations that will provide mental health services and medical care in Ocean and Middlesex County.  These grants are being used to meet the high demands of services in these Sandy impacted areas frequently at no cost to the patients.  …

NJ Recovery Fund Update: Environment & Planning Programming

April 22, 2014 The environment/planning grantees are leading the advocacy effort for greater transparency and public debate on how the state spends its Sandy recovery funds, providing direct support to communities for long term resiliency planning, and implementing on-the-ground demonstration projects that showcase the value of natural systems as integral to community resiliency, sustainability, and public safety.…

NJ Recovery Fund Update: Inform & Engage Programming

April 22, 2014 We believe that reliable and accessible news and information plays an important role in the health and well-being of New Jersey’s communities. NJRF supported eleven projects that inform and engage the public on issues the state faces as it recovers from Superstorm Sandy.…

NJ Recovery Fund Update: Timeline & Goals

April 22, 2015 Most of the gifts to the New Jersey Recovery Fund were made between December 2012 and March of 2013, totaling approximately $7.1 million. Many of the contributors had specific goals for their funding that we honored as we pursued the grantmaking.…

New Jersey Recovery Fund Tops $4.2 Million in Grants

April 22, 2014 The New Jersey Recovery Fund has now topped $4.2 million across roughly 86 grants to pursue smart recovery decisions that will help New Jersey avoid repeating the type of devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy. The Fund has awarded grants to a range of organizations focused on three broad categories: planning and public policies that promote community resiliency and environmental protection; engaging and informing the public about recovery decisions; and using the arts to foster individual and community healing and revitalization in impacted communities.…